When Jimmy Carter left the White House, he wished two enduring headaches
on his successor: Israel's combative Prime Minister Menachem Begin and
ABC News' abrasive White House correspondent Sam Donaldson. Last month,
when Ronald Reagan spoke at a ceremony extolling the achievements of
ABC News President Roone Arledge, Reagan added: "Sam Donaldson is a
small price to pay." Not many people would cherish having provoked
Chief Executives as diverse as Carter and Reagan. But Donaldson, 49,
has gleefully made himself perhaps the best-known...